{"id":82895,"date":"2018-09-22T09:42:24","date_gmt":"2018-09-22T16:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/glimpse-on-the-promise-of-a-future-with-artificial-wombs-and-why-its-being-stopped-by-the-present"},"modified":"2018-09-25T11:18:41","modified_gmt":"2018-09-25T18:18:41","slug":"glimpse-on-the-promise-of-a-future-with-artificial-wombs-and-why-its-being-stopped-by-the-present","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/glimpse-on-the-promise-of-a-future-with-artificial-wombs-and-why-its-being-stopped-by-the-present","title":{"rendered":"Glimpse: On the Promise of a Future with Artificial Wombs, and Why It\u2019s Being Stopped by the Present"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/z7OsEGT9d3o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Given the speed at which reproductive technology has advanced over the past few decades, it doesn\u2019t feel all that far-fetched: A future in which <em>anyone<\/em> can have a baby, regardless of creed or need, whenever they feel like it. Already, in our present moment, one can buy or sell eggs and sperm; we can give embryos genetic tests to ensure the children they produce don\u2019t have any life-threatening hereditary conditions; and babies can even be born, now, with the<a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/two-women-undergo-three-parent-baby-therapy-uk\/\"> genetic information from three parents<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So it follows that we should soon be able to to have pregnancy outside the body \u2014 artificial wombs. R ight?<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019d think. Scientists have already figured out how to mimic many of the body\u2019s processes for techniques like in-vitro fertilization and even hormonal birth control. But the ways mothers\u2019 bodies support and signal fetuses is incredibly complicated \u2014 and the science isn\u2019t yet at a point where we can simulate these processes. And because <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/health-shots\/2017\/03\/02\/516280895\/embryo-experiments-reveal-earliest-human-development-but-stir-ethical-debate\">scientists are prohibited<\/a> from studying embryos 14 days past their fertilization, that\u2019s one sci-fi vision that is not likely to come to fruition.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/glimpse-artificial-wombs-future-present\/\">https:\/\/futurism.com\/glimpse-artificial-wombs-future-present\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Given the speed at which reproductive technology has advanced over the past few decades, it doesn\u2019t feel all that far-fetched: A future in which anyone can have a baby, regardless of creed or need, whenever they feel like it. Already, in our present moment, one can buy or sell eggs and sperm; we can give [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82895"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83030,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82895\/revisions\/83030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}